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roof. I said, “This is history. It's in the public domain. We're not coming to you for any help. We're basing this book on the newspaper accounts and from John Hersey's detailed account in the New Yorker.” McGraw-Hill had a contract for the other book and they went to the length of consulting lawyers to see if they could stop us from doing our Landmark book. By this time my back really was up. Of course the lawyers told them they didn't have a prayer--that this was history. We never went to a Kennedy for help. We didn't need any! But this was the first time I realized that Bobby Kennedy was a pretty tough hombre!

Have you had any other troubles with him at all?

No. The second time that I met a Kennedy was a couple of years ago. Leland and Pamela Hayward had a luncheon party up at their place near ours at Mt. Kisco. Jackie was their guest and I had the privilege of sitting next to her at lunch. Oh, my, what an attractive woman. This was many months after the death of the President where she behaved so heroically-- an example of American womanhood at its best. This was before she began to get spoiled and arrogant. Who wouldn't--the say she's been idolized by the public? At this luncheon party she and Kitty Hart met for the first time. They had something in common. Jackie's husband had been assassinated; Kitty's husband Moss had died suddenly of heart failure. The two of them fell into each other's arms, crying, “How could they ever